New Delhi: Armed with the surface-to-surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a medium range gun and anti-submarine rockets, guided missile frigate INS Teg will be commissioned into the Indian Navy on Friday at the Yantar shipyard in Russia.

"INS Teg is a modern warship with advanced technologies to make it stable, fast and stealthy. The Teg class of ships have been built to meet specific Command and Control needs of Indian Navy for coordinated surface, air and underwater missions," Indian Navy officials said here.

An advanced version of the Talwar-class guided missile frigates, these ships have been fitted with an upgraded multi-role combat suite to make them one of the most potent platforms of the Navy, they said.

The ship is also armed with an anti-submarine cum airborne early warning helicopter and its weapons suite and sensors are fully integrated with latest Combat Management System (CMS).

On its maiden voyage, the vessel will be commanded by Captain Rakesh Kumar Dahiya, a Communication and Electronic Warfare specialist, commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1987. It is manned by a crew of 24 officers and 229 sailors.

"Interestingly, the individual crew members of INS Teg speak 15 different languages as their mother tongues and follow six different religious faiths," said the officials.

The frigate will be commissioned into the Navy by the Southern Naval Commander Vice-Admiral K N Sushil. The project to construct the ship was launched five years ago in July 2007 when its keel was laid at the Yantar shipyard, near Kaliningrad.

With a speed of over 30 knots, the ship can cover 4500 nautical miles with a 30-day endurance capability. It has a displacement of 3,850 tonnes. Mythologically, the word Teg means a single-edged curved sword used by Sikh warriors.

Capable of operating in all kinds of environment, it is equipped with state-of-art automated systems for nuclear, biological and chemical defence. To minimise casualty during fire fighting and other damages, it can be operated centrally from specially constructed and designed sheltered posts.